Watch: Tim Cook presents Trump with glass statue after $100bn investment announcement Apple plans to boost investment in the US by another $100bn (£75bn) as the tech giant comes under pressure from President Donald Trump. The White House said the money would be used to encourage firms to make more Apple parts in the US…
Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News Bernardo Reyes-Tur A Polymita snail in its native forest habitat in Eastern Cuba Researchers have embarked on a mission to save what some consider to be the world’s most beautiful snails, and also unlock their biological secrets. Endangered Polymita tree snails, which are disappearing from their native forest habitats…
Chloe Hayward & Hugh Pym BBC News Amy Amy has had multiple emergency ambulance callouts this year As a child, Amy was often violently attacked. At 15, she was threatened with a knife. Now diagnosed with complex PTSD, she’s spent over a decade isolated at home with her mum, desperately seeking help. She has seen…
Frequent travelers understand the importance of keeping things light, compact, and accessible when taking a plane, train, or car. That’s why travel backpacks are ideal, especially if you regularly hop around for work. The designers over at Bange kept all of this in mind when creating the popular Expandable Travel Backpack, which was coincidentally our…
Gordon Brown has called on Chancellor Rachel Reeves to hike gambling taxes so she can lift benefit restrictions at her autumn Budget. The former Labour prime minister and chancellor told the BBC Britain was facing a “social crisis” with a growing need to take children out of poverty. Hiking taxes on the “undertaxed” gambling industry…
Ridding the world of nuclear weapons is an urgent moral issue, said three U.S. archbishops participating in a Pilgrimage of Peace to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, that coincided with the 80th anniversaries of the atomic bombings of those cities. “We must assume the cause of global nuclear disarmament with the urgency that befits the seriousness…
Actress Gina Carano has settled her lawsuit against Disney and Lucasfilm after she was fired from Star Wars franchise spin-off The Mandalorian. She was dropped from the cast in 2021 following comments she made comparing being a Republican in the US to being a Jew during the Holocaust. Ms Carano, a former MMA fighter who…
A district court judge’s partial finding of fair use in a copyright infringement case brought by a group of authors against AI developer Anthropic in June sent shockwaves through the technology and copyright legal worlds. But the court’s subsequent ruling to certify the remaining charge against Anthropic over its downloading millions of pirated books for…
Organized, large-scale fraud is quietly infiltrating scientific journals – and it’s growing faster than legitimate research, according to a new study. Many once thought of these as isolated cases of misconduct by individual researchers, but investigators are now revealing them as a sprawling, coordinated system. It is complete with brokers, hijacked journals, and “paper mills”…
